The upsets kept coming in the Friday quarterfinals at the Monte Carlo Masters, where local resident and world No. 2 Novak Djokovic and No. 5 seed Marin Cilic were upset on the red clay.

Djokovic was outlasted 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 by No. 10 seed David Goffin of Belgium. By the end of the third set Djokovic was wincing and appeared gassed after long rallies.

“It doesn’t matter how you played before against …

After a scorching 16-1 start to 2017 which included two titles and an Australian Open semifinal, Grigor Dimitrov has once again hit the skids. With Wednesday’s opening round loss to Jan-Lennard Struff in Monte Carlo, Dimitrov is now just 1-5 in his last six matches. It’s a complete reversal of how well he was playing a few months ago!

What’s interesting is it was this time last year when Dimitrov began …

Andy Murray slipped early on the clay once again in Monte Carlo, losing in three sets to Albert Ramos-Vinolas yesterday after blowing 4-0 lead in the third. It was one of the rare times Murray has let such a lead go in the 26, 62, 76 third round loss.

“I’m disappointed to lose from the position that I was in,” Murray said. “If you sort of look at the scoreline, it …

Who said the era of clay court specialists was dead?

Not world No. 1 Andy Murray, or No. 3 Stan Wawrinka.

Both were sent home on Thursday from the Monte Carlo Masters. Murray was outlasted 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 by No. 15 seed Al Ramos-Vinolas of Spain, while Wawrinka was dismissed 6-4, 6-4 by No. 16 seed Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay.

“The most normal thing would be to lose the match,” said Ramos-Vinolas on …

World No. 1 Andy Murray led an all-star cast into the third round at the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday, including No. 3 Stan Wawrinka and No. 4 Rafael Nadal.

Murray was a 7-5, 7-5 winner over Gilles Muller, while Wawrinka and Nadal struggled. The Swiss beat Czech Jiri Vesely 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, while the Spaniard beat Brit Kyle Edmund in an uneven 6-0, 5-7, 6-3 meeting.

“I definitely played better as …

Following a tough 3-set comeback win over Gilles Simon Tuesday in Monte Carlo, Novak Djokovic was asked who he was afraid of at the French Open.

“I don’t fear anyone,” Djokovic responded.

Djokovic, who won the French Open last year to complete his career Slam, has just one title in the last ninth months, winning at Doha at the start of the year.

And with his recent struggles, Djokovic said the …

Serena Williams dropped a bombshell Wednesday revealing on snapchat that she’s 20 weeks pregnant. The 35-year-old is engaged to Reddit co-found Alex Ohanian with a wedding date still to be announced.

Serena hasn’t played since winning the Australian Open, a title she won while pregnant! And her pregnancy likely means she’s done for the season with the baby expected around the US Open.

Serena will be 36 in September and with a …

Novak Djokovic’s struggled continued Tuesday in Monte Carlo. The Serb who had won just five tournament matches since his Doha title to start the year, was nearly bounced in his clay opener today against Gilles Simon.

The Frenchman led with a break in the third and served for the match at 5-4. But with Simon spraying errors and missing volleys, Djokovic took the last three games to escape with a 6-3, …

On the first full day of play at Monte Carlo, the seeds went 6-0 led by former finalist Tomas Berdcyh’s 3-set comeback win. Berdych, who made the final in 2015 losing to Novak Djokovic, dropped the first set before winning the next two to deny qualifier Alex Kuznetsov 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Berdych will await the winner of the Paire-Haas match scheduled for tomorrow.

Germany phenom Alexander Zverev rolled in his opener …

American Steve Johnson won an unlikely first career claycourt title on Sunday at the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship in Houston, Texas.

The No. 4 seed, who has in the last few weeks been to Australia and back to represent his country in Davis Cup, beat clay court veteran and No. 8 seed Thomaz Bellucci 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5) for his second career title.

“My body has just physically …

With a little help from German veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber, Croat Borna Coric won his career-first title on Sunday.

Coric saved five match points in downing Kohlschreiber 5-7, 7-6(3), 7-5 in the final of the Grand Prix Hassan II in Marrakech, Morocco.

A runner-up in Marrakech last year, the Croatian won the longest final on the ATP World Tour this year.

“I served very well in the big points,” he said. “It’s an awesome …

Former world No. 4 Francesca Schiavone is setting herself up to go out in style.

The former French Open champion is in her farewell season on the WTA tour. This week she hadn’t won a WTA match through almost the first four months of the year, but the 36 year old captured the title on Sunday at the Claro Open Colsanitas in Colombia, Bogota, in the final upsetting No. 4-seeded Spaniard …

Teen qualifier Marketa Vondrousova, playing in just her second career WTA-level tournament, won the inaugural Ladies Open Biel Bienne on Sunday, in the final defeating Anett Kontaveit, 6-4, 7-6(6) in Switzerland.

Vondrousova was 2-2 in ITF-level finals this year entering the event.

“It’s the biggest win of my career, because I’d mostly played smaller tournaments, 25Ks and 60Ks,” she said after the match. “This was one of my first big tournaments, and …

While visiting the famed l’Hotel de Paris Saturday evening in Monte Carlo, Andy Murray was asked about his cooking habits.

“I’m not good at all. Scrambled eggs is my best dish,” Murray said. “I really enjoy my food, but I’m a horrible cook unfortunately.”

After missing Miami with an elbow injury, Murray is back this week to play Monte Carlo. The world No. 1 will play the winner either Tommy Robredo or …

The struggling Eugenie Bouchard dipped down to the ITF Futures level this week looking for some match wins. Bouchard is ranked 56 in the world but hasn’t won a match since Australia, losing her last five.

So the 23-year-old signed up to play the $80K ITF clay event this week in Indian Harbour, Florida. Bouchard won her first two rounds but lost in the quarterfinals to Vicky Duval 60, 63.

Duval, …